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Leather Tuscadero in Happy Days; was this supposed to be a joke?
15 Jul 2006 13:13:13 -0700
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How does Leather fit into Happy Days..., she's just so 1970's.
P.S. Suzi Quattro still looks the same
weberm...
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I'd call it some sort of "merchandising tie-in" (or whatever they
call it), but (1) I think this was way before they did those things
and (2) Suzi Quattro wasn't all that popular in the first place.
I seem to recall she caused a lot of friction on the set and her
part as Fonzie's lover was subsequentially dropped.
Anim8rFSK...
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wait
wasn't pinky Fonzie's lover, and Leather her kid sister?
et472...
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I don't think they had "lovers" in the fifties, certainly not on
"Happy Days" or even likely most tv shows of the time. The proper
word would be "girlfriend" or "wife".
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Jude Cormier...
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Correct. Roz Kelly got herself banned from being back on Happy Days.
Suzi Quattro, OTOH, was well liked.
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Ubiquitous...
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I thought it was the other way around...
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Josh Hutcherson...
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Oh, mid-series they just totally gave up on all continuity. Last couple
Ronnie...
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Boy, that's for sure. The haircuts of Potsie and Chachi turned
wholly contemporary, and then they added Ted McGinley....
Anim8rFSK...
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And it's in the Pinky eps that they use those completely contemporary
hair dryers.
Michael Alden...
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Happy Days was a great show about the 1950s that lasted a season and a
half. After that it became the Fonzie Show, something completely
different. This doesn't take place in any era.
debdav1...
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I always say that "Happy Days" went from being set in the 50's, to
being set in Sitcomland! Any show without "Rock Around the Clock" as
the theme isn't worth watching.
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Anim8rFSK...
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Yeah. The minute they went to the live audience, it was all over.
Rob Jensen...
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And it became That 50's Show, and then That Richie-less Show, to go
with the theme of shows that aren't really about the era that they're
ostensibly (but not really) set in.
-- Rob
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Jorabi...
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Amen. I stopped watching after a few multi-cam eppies.
Anim8rFSK...
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It was the :
scene starts
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE
Mrs. C walks in
APPLAUSE
Fonzi enters
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE
Fonzi says 'A'
APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE
format that took care of it for me. :\
Jude Cormier...
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Ostensibly, the show became about Fonzie, the super hero and his male crush
posse.
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William George Ferguson...
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There was a sketch on the Carol Burnett show, done with Carol, Harvey
Korman, and Tim Conway, that absolutely nailed the evil of the 3-camera
live-audience format (with 'enriched' laugh track).
Looking back, it's amazing how often Burnett got away with being really
vicious, by being really funny.
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years having Joannie and Chachi singing disco love songs to each other
(mellow soft gold '70s oldies) to each other just represents the
producers lack of caring ("whatever...").
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She certainly didn't fit into the 50's, but thinking some more, I don't
think she fitted into the storyline neither.
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